MBA Educational Leadership and Management MBA at Anglia Ruskin University

Programme overview

Focus closely on your current role as a teacher or leader and boost your educational management skills to open up new career opportunities with our distance learning MBA.

Duration: 2 years part-time | Study mode: part-time | Intake: September 2027 | Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

During Year 1, you'll develop a deep understanding of factors which shape ways of thinking, working, and learning in educational environments. As an education leader, it is essential that you can identify, understand and develop a coherent strategic approach to management. Year 1: Leading Educational Change and Improvement, Strategic Management in Education, Professional Enquiry for Education. Year 2: Research Methodology, Developing Effective Management Systems, Postgraduate Major Project.

Career pathways

Whether you’re a teacher or lecturer with some management responsibilities, a leader in an educational institution, or an education leader in a different sector, you can enhance your impact and improve your career opportunities with our MBA course. An MBA in Educational Leadership and Management can help your career progression and will open up new opportunities in senior management, strategic leadership, directorships and consultancy.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally have a good first degree or National College ADSBM and have a minimum of 2 years experience of employment in a related field, this does not need to have been at a leadership or managerial level. International students will be required to demonstrate the university standard of English language (IELTS) at Level 6.5 (Academic level), including written English, prior to commencement on a course. Students who do not meet this requirement will be advised to seek support from Anglia Ruskin University's Language Centre. Applicants should be working within an educational context within a role that includes Leadership and Management responsibility. All students will need access to broadband internet in order to download module content and engage in streamed content where appropriate.

GBP 13,525 for the whole programme (2027/28). Tuition fee: Distance learning students starting 2027/28 (part-time, total cost) Source

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 2 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/apply-online?course=&route=P0106

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